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Logical Volume Manager

 Storage technology plays a important role in improving the


availability, performance, and ability to manage Linux servers.

 One of the most useful and helpful technology to Linux


system administrator is Linux Logical Volume Manager(LVM).

 LVM is a widely-used technique and extremely flexible disk


management scheme for deploying logical rather than
physical storage. With LVM, system administrator can easily
resize and extend the logical drive when it is required.
1. Physical Volume (PV)
2. Volume Group (VG)
3. Logical Volume (LV)
Physical Volume create from One or more entire hard
disks or partitions.
A volume group (VG) is created using one or more physical
volumes. You can think of a volume group as a single storage
unit.

The default size of PE is 4MB


Logical volumes are block devices which are created from the
volume group.
It is use to store actual data like partition after create the file
system.
Each volume within a volume group is segmented into small,
fixed-size chunks called extents.

The extents on a physical volume are called physical extents,


while the extents of a logical volume are called logical extents.
Step I : Create Physical Volume(PV)

Step1 : For create PV


#pvcreate /dev/sdb1

Step2 : For Display PV


#pvdisplay /dev/sdb1
Step 1: For Create Volume Group default PE size
#vgcreate engineering /dev/sdb1

Step 2 : For display volume group


#vgdisplay engineering

OR

For Create VG with Specific PE (physical Extends) Size


#vgcreate -s 8 engineering /dev/sdb1
Step1: For Create LV with Specific PE (physical
Extends) Size
#lvcreate -l 100 –n /dev/engineering/comp

Step 2: For display LV


#lvdisplay /dev/engineering/comp
OR
For Create LV with Specific MB Size
#lvcreate -L 100 –n /dev/engineering/comp
Step1: For create partition on LV comp
#mkfs.ext4 /dev/engineering/comp

Step2: For permanent mount partition


#mkdir /comp1

#vim /etc/fstab
/dev/engineering/comp /comp1 ext4 defaults 00
:wq

#mount -a
#mount
OR
#df -h
For resize VG create PV and then extend VG

Step 1: For extend VG


#vgextend engineering /dev/sdb2

Step 2: For reduce VG


#vgreduce engineering /dev/sdb2
Step 1: For extend LV
#lvextend -L +100 /dev/engineering/comp

Step 2: For reduce LV


#lvreduce -L -50 /dev/engineering/comp
Step 1: Remove Permanent Mounting Record
#vim /etc/fstab

Step 2: Unmount LVM


#umount /comp1

Step 3: Remove LV
#lvremove /dev/engineering/comp

Step 4: Remove VG
#vgremove engineering

Step 5: Remove PV
#pvremove /dev/sdb1

Step 6: Remove Partition


#fdisk /dev/sdb

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